Blacklin Associates introduces John Connell, of I Am Learner, to its fold. John brings three decades of experience in education, at all levels and across all sectors, to the company. He brings to our clients a unique blend of insight, experience and knowledge: authentic and substanatial teaching and education management experience; leadership of the world's first successful national connected schools program; extensive business development experience in education across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Eastern and Western Europe and Africa.

Just a few of John's many achievements in recent years include:

He developed innovative campus architectures for new universities in Saudi Arabia

He co-wrote the national education ICT strategy for a major Gulf state

He guided the design and implementation of connected schools pilots & projects across the world

He devised the communications strategy for a major South African university

He advised on teacher-training reconstruction in post-civil-war Liberia

John has played key roles in creating and developing network architectures to support learning for schools and universities - he specialises in ensuring that a high-level network design dovetails exactly with the real educational needs and expectations of the user base. Too often, campus and school networks are designed and implemented according to criteria based more on business and corporate needs than with the true educational interests. The needs of teachers and students, and the specific requirements of different educational sectors, must be front and center of any network design process.

John brings to the Blacklin Education Practice many years of experience, both in the Glow Program and in his work with Cisco Systems across the the globe, and will work with clients to help them clarify and set out their real collaborative, communicative and educational needs for the future.

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I Am Learner

Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in my hand, and just as no one can sense the world as I perceive it around me, no one can teach me. No one can teach me......